This paper tries to determine the most effective method of providing logistical support to a theater replacement command. A history of United States Army replacement systems prior to World War II is described, along with a discussion of methods of...
Would it be advantageous from a military point of view to establish a single service with the responsibility for the procurement, transportation, and distribution of petroleum products? The author questions whether petroleum products for the Armed...
This is a description of the rearmament of the French Army, accomplished by the U.S. forces in North Africa, and shows the difficulties that may arise in an inter-allied organization. The author studied how the rearmament worked, its failures, and...
This document addresses the pre-war politics and government of the Philippines, the pattern of Japanese administration, what co-prosperity actually meant to the Japanese, and the grant of Philippine independence.
The purpose of this monograph is to present examples of two general types of river crossings. The first is a deliberate crossing characterized by careful planning and preparation, the success of which is directly proportional to the thoroughness of...
The purpose of this monograph is to present a discussion of the operations of a guerrilla unit which was organized in North Luzon, and which operated in a manner somewhat different from what is conceived to be the usual employment of this type of...
The topic of this document is the normal functioning of artillery headquarters and staff of an infantry division in combat. The purpose is to acquaint the reader with the functions of the division artillery staff and point out how the artillery...
This monograph will emphasize two important factors involved in the operation. First, it will bring about special training needed with the infantry-tank-artillery-engineer team in order to successfully launch an attack in hedgerow country against a...
The purpose of this monograph is to illustrate the operation of an armored division in the exploitation of a 'breakthrough', using as an example the experiences of the Second Armored Division in the vicinity of Saint Lo, France, in late July 1944.
This is an account of the 3d Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2d Armored Division (reinforced) to seize the Adolph Hitler Bridge over the Rhine River at Uerdingen, Germany intact on 3 March 1945.
This is an analysis of the principal logistical problems created by the establishment of a theater of operations in Alaska and develops a logistical organization and procedures which will effectively minimize these problems. Supply, the geopolitics...
The purpose of this paper is the determination of the best policy for handling and utilization of negro troops in order to gain the best return in efficiency of the troops as far as the government is concerned during peace time. Also, the goal was...
This pamphlet contains transportation planning factors and reference data applicable in peacetime and emergency planning in the US Army Pacific Command (USARPAC) area of responsibility.
This document discusses the teaching of military history at the Army War College from the founding to World War II, the formative period, post-World War I, re-establishment to the present, and looking into the future.
This document focuses on water airdromes or landing areas (types of sites, availability, planes suitable for use), ice airdromes (types of ice, how near the shore, pack ice, ice fields, ice caps), and conventional airdromes (arctic problems and...
This is the Army Aviation depot plan, a plan for the assumption (by the Transportation Corps), of the responsibilities for depot storage and issue of Army aircraft items and depot maintenance of Army aircraft and secondary transportation air items.
In this first of a two-part interview covering his 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Jason Shelton talks about being a team leader from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion and working in Uruzgan Province...
In this interview, Major Carey Eichhorst talks about her three-month service as the personnel support for contingency operations (PERSCO) team chief at Manas Airbase, Kyrgyzstan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She discusses her role in...
From March through October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Commander Randall Hodo, a US Navy reservist, served as the preventive medicine officer with the 4th Civil Affairs Group. He discusses his role in assessing wastewater...
In this second of a two-part interview covering his 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Jason Shelton talks about being a team leader from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion and working in Uruzgan Province...